As you may remember, around a year ago the team behind the YouTube service rolled out a new design for the service, which plays nice in the Chrome browser. Its performance is quite different in other browsers like Firefox and Edge. The new design utilizes a special markup which is supported in Chrome's Blink engine only, causing performance issues with other modern browsers.

The solution is to force the service to use an older version of the markup, which loads more than 3 times faster in any browser. While the service doesn't offer any option for that, you can try it with help of a third-party browser extension.

Enjoy your faster YouTube web site. Clicking on the extension icon will reveal that you have a user script running for YouTube.

Mozilla Firefox

If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can save a lot time. The add-on repository includes the ready-to-use extension YouTube Classic. After you install it, it does everything automatically for you, making the YouTube service work a lot faster using the classic design.

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